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Somabar: Robotic Bartender for your Home

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backers

Who's Talking About Somabar:

Conventional
bottles or containers are bulky, wasteful and boring, that’s why we designed
our SOMA PODS. With their friction-fit seal mechanism, SOMA PODS not only store ingredients
for your favorite craft cocktails but also detach from your SOMABAR easily.

Liquid is quickly extracted from the Soma Pods using positive displacement pumps to make your cocktail with dead-on accuracy, every time.

The Soma Pod Process:

It's not a real cocktail unless it's mixed! SOMABAR has created a proprietary static mixing technology to ensure your cocktail is thoroughly mixed before it is dispensed into your glass. Now that's what we call a good cocktail.

When you
press that button on the app, your SOMABAR will take the ingredients from
scratch, infuse bitters (if you are in the mood) and dynamically mix them in
precise quantities using positive displacement pumps before pouring out your
craft cocktail in less than 5 seconds. The mixing comes from a combination of fluid dynamics, kinetic energy, and turbulence created by static vanes. What that means is fewer moving parts to maintain, as well as fast and perfectly mixed cocktails. Our on-board software and sensors make it easy to make new recipes and manage your inventory (liquid gold).

We are pretty stoked about our app. Some of the features
we have designed include:

Drink suggestions based on the ingredients you
already have.

Drink recommendations based on your preferences, letting you know
what ingredients you may need to add.

Create and promote your own cocktails to the
Somabar community.

Make your cocktails strong or weak to suit your taste.

Track
your inventory and let you know if you are running low on any product.

For both Android and iOS lovers.

Cleaning your SOMABAR is as easy and automated as a SOMABAR should be. With an automatic internal water flushing system which activates every time you switch to a new drink, ensuring that your next cocktail will always taste like your first. Our SOMA PODS are also dishwasher safe!

We want SOMABAR to be as unique as you are. So we have designed a variety of colors, including our basic and wood looks (check out our website for these options). We will be sending out your survey after the campaign closes to confirm your color choice.

Each craft cocktail requires the perfect infusion of liquor, mixers, bitters and syrups. However, there is no other way to make a craft cocktail other than by hand, and doing so can be a complicated process. So we created SOMABAR. To make the best craft cocktails in a precise and consistent way, in under 5 seconds, specifically for your home kitchen.

At SOMABAR we believe in three concepts: PERFORMANCE, PRECISION and PRICE.
Automated bartending is something that has been attempted before, but never in a precise and AFFORDABLE manner created specifically for the home kitchen. Now with the tap of a button, you can create mouthwatering cocktails just like a professional mixologist in under five seconds.

Two years
ago we had this aha moment and realized there was no affordable automated
bartending solutions in existence. With the only automated bartenders costing
around $4,000, we figured something had to be done.

So we started tinkering with electronics, pumps, and a countless amount of liquor bottles. After testing many prototypes we finally created a product that our friends wanted to use.

Your Somabar Cocktail Menu

And the list goes on...

Risks and challenges

MATERIALS: Our goal is to provide you with a truly unique and affordable appliance. While we have an amazing team standing by for manufacturing, problems could always occur with sourcing materials depending on the volume we have to fulfill. But having a large order to fill is a great "problem" to have.

MANUFACTURING: While we have a great product, building a lot of them can lead to manufacturing issues. We don't want to ship an unreliable product, and so problems like parts breaking down in test could delay deliveries.

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THANK YOU: Your help at any level brings us that much closer to getting Somabar to a home kitchen near you! We will feature you on our website as a Somabar Backer and keep you informed of all our backer exclusive updates!

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EARLY BIRD: Get your very own Somabar for $100 less than the pre-order price. Now you can finally make craft cocktails in your home kitchen at the press of a button! Comes with six SOMA PODS and a bitters POD.

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EARLY BIRD: Get your very own Somabar for $100 less than the pre-order price. Now you can finally make craft cocktails in your home kitchen at the press of a button! Comes with six SOMA PODS and a bitters POD. (Shipping paid separately)

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INTERNATIONAL EARLY BIRD: We want everyone to enjoy the taste of a perfect craft cocktail, but shipping is expensive outside the U.S., and may be far more than $100 depending on country. So please pick this level if you are international, as we may have to charge more for shipping depending on your country. Comes with six SOMA PODS and a bitters POD. (Shipping paid separately)

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INTERNATIONAL REGULAR BIRD: We want everyone to enjoy the taste of a perfect craft cocktail, but shipping is expensive outside the U.S., and may be far more than $100 depending on country. Get your SOMABAR $200 less than the retail price of $699! Comes with six SOMA PODS and a bitters POD. Get ready for amazing craft cocktails! (Shipping paid separately)

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SOMABAR AMAZING FAN: We will PERSONALLY fly out to you and tend your bar at your next event with the only SOMABAR prototype in the world! You will also get one of the very first SOMABARS personally numbered and signed by us and all the SOMABAR swag. We will even name a drink after you and program it into our app for the world to see. (Shipping paid separately)